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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Large trees up to 35 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark dark grey, longitudinally fissured, lenticellate; blaze pink. |
Branchlets : | Latex white. |
Exudates : | Branchlets terete, puberulous when young, later glabrous. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, glabrous, terete and canaliculate towards apex; pubescent when young, later glabrous; lamina 7-14 2.5-7 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip, base rounded or acute, margin slightly undulate, coriaceous, glabrous, shining above; midrib raised above; secondary nerves ca. 18 pairs, slender, looped near margin; tertiary nerves admedially ramified. |
Flowers : | Flowers white, in axillary fasicles; pedicel up to 2 cm. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, ellipsoid, reddish-brown when ripe; seed one. |